"Yes We Can" - Nuclear Program Not Subject to Negotiation: N. Korean Newspaper.

"Yes We Can" - Nuclear Program Not Subject to Negotiation: N. Korean Newspaper.(Fortunascorner)

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This is not unexpected and confirms what many have long known – north Korea will not negotiate away its nuclear weapons.

Nuclear Program Not Subject to Negotiation: N. Korean Newspaper.

North Korea’s nuclear arms program is not a matter of political negotiations, the country’s mouthpiece newspaper said Monday, expressing Pyongyang’s intention to stick to atomic weapons development.

The report by the Rodong Sinmun daily, an organ of the Workers’ Party of Korea, came as the top South Korean envoy on talks aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear programs held a chain of negotiations with his counterparts in neighboring countries.

Chief six-party negotiator Hwang Joon-kook met with his counterparts from the U.S. and China earlier this month before flying to hold a meeting with his Russian counterpart this week as part of efforts to resume a long-stalled multilateral forum to end North Korea’s nuclear program.

“The fuss made by the U.S. and its followers in the international stage as if they are interested in denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula is a ridiculous trick in expectations of concession or compromise from us (North Korea) who (will) further strengthen our war deterrence,” reported an article, carried by the daily.

The article also reasserted the country’s widely-declared dual policy of seeking both economic development and nuclear arms development, saying that “now for us, it is unthinkable to build economic might and a strong socialist country without strengthening nuclear capacities.”

North Korea will not respond to U.S. calls to give up nuclear arms in exchange for development assistance, the newspaper said, adding that “our nuclear deterrence is not an object of political negotiations or economic trading.”

The reaction from the North came amid growing efforts by member countries of the six-party denuclearization talks to resume the negotiations. Since the talks were suspended in late 2008, the North has conducted two more nuclear tests, considerably upgrading its nuclear arms program.Hmmmm....After having Iran as example expect every dictator to go now for Nuke development, Turkey Next